I did not frankly know that animals other than humans are able to have disorders like narcolepsy. This little squirrel you’ll see in about two minutes has narcolepsy and it’s having tough times in the back yard of a house. A tragically hilarious video and kudos to the guy who filmed it. Quoting his description on Youtube:
We had this wild gray squirrel in our back yard that I could never get on film that kept passing out. I finally left the video camera on the kitchen counter on a regular basis trying to catch it on film. Over a few months of filming I was able to get two minutes on film. The amazing thing here is that it lived in 80 foot tall trees and we saw it for a period of six months.
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I have seen this before! I love squirrels, and I have dozens here at my Portland home. We have three big feeders out and we see a lot of squirrel shenanigans. As it turns out, when they act like this they are drunk. Some fruit and berries that stay on the vine into the fall will develop alcohol. The squirrels get hammered on it. I have seen two fall out of the trees. One made it home, one did not. Like drunk driving, I guess.
We have robins here that eat the juniper berries when the weather gets really cold, and they get as hammered as the squirrels do. Some tip off the bushes, and a few drop out of the sky every year and freak people out, so the newspaper sometimes runs a story on it.
When we were young we would spend some time at a family daily farm. I learned there that the cows got hammered off of the silage mash. They would get staggering drunk and mill around and for whatever reason us kids thought that was so very amusing. Poor girls.
Seems that a good deal of the animal kingdom has no qualms about getting a booze buzz. Can’t say I agree with them though. With my N I just fall asleep. I wonder if we put beer out on the feeder wether a squirrel would drink it. Hmmm
I’m not so sure about whether this squirrel has narcolepsy. When the squirrel tumbles itself, apparently it’s still moving, and these movements seemed to originate from the forebrain (handling the nut, motor control, etc), which should be in a diminished state in sleep. I do not have extensive information on rodent neurology, but I am guessing that a balance disorder is more likely. This might be an infection, inflammation or another abnormality in squirrel’s vestibular system, or maybe cerebellum. However, as I stated, I’m not a zoologist or neurologist, therefore it might as well be narcolepsy.
If I were you, I would rule out an infection, since the owner of the video says it took him six months to get two minutes of footage. Of course I’m assuming that it’s not a parasite. It may only be cataplexy, which is just the loss of functions muscles. But you’re right. Rodents react almost the same as humans to narccolepsy. Also, cataplexy could be partial, having a huge effect on the muscle strength. And this poor guy might be having muscle problems.